This painted shark craft is really easy to prepare using one of our free printable templates and uses materials that you probably have at home already. These seashell decorations are ones that I made with my kids several years ago after a trip to the beach. We’ve used salt dough to make them but clay would be another great option. I just ADORE driftwood, and this cute weaving craft from theredthread. I need to make some right now! I love these easy crafts. Such a cute way to use sea shells. Under the sea inspired crafts for kids 4. Ripped Tissue Paper Collage

Grab the paints or markers and make this cute paper plate beach craft, what will you add to the scene? 2. Shell Suncatcher With a bit more patience or older kids you could probably make your driftwood look more like people but for my kids being able to just do something creative that didn’t have to look perfectly like something worked really well. 18. Seashell Self Portrait Sea glass is the remains of broken glass that has been washed into the sea or ocean, and transformed over time into beautiful natural frosted glass.

OK, as we move out of the city, buildings get smaller and it gets a lot greener, so let's start with some farm shapes and some texture. Play around with your textures. Here, I've used some sandpaper for the buildings. And then some red felt squares for the roof tiles. Now for the greenery. I'm going to add earthy colours, natural materials and much more organic shapes. Shells themselves can be a great way to inspire creativity – we’ve made a shell lion before but my favourite is this shell whale. Just grab some pains, markers and paper and see what you can come up with! 4. Create Decorations

Ok, so you might not see many seahorses on your average beach visit but they’re an animal that’s always really popular with kids (and adults too!) so I couldn’t help include them! private collection, repr. John Piper , exh. cat., Marlborough Fine Art, 1964, p.21, no.25). This is usually ascribed to 1936, but the style and technique (similar marbled paper) relate to Beach with StarfishThis seahorse craft is made using one of our free printable templates along with bleeding tissue paper and we loved the way the colors turned out.

The Imagination Tree has the most beautiful idea for salt dough homemade fossils and nature print keepsakes! What a fun seashell craft. 12. Memory Craft: Shells And we also need to think...about the glass in our skyscrapers,and for that, I'm going to use thisacetate sheet here. And we need to think about shape. There are lots of straightlines in the city, so I'm cutting lots of rectangles and squares.Now I'm going to add some blue tissue paper for the sky. And then scrunch up this brown paper to make some craggy mountains. And now I'm going to take some cotton wool and pull it apart slightly to make some clouds. It would also make really good snow as well. Now I'm going to scrunch up some of this tin foil, because I'm going to have a river flowing through my picture. So we can pop the foil down so our river is winding right through our countryside and down off to the side here, into the sea. Red Sea glass is one of the most rare colors of sea glass to find, along with orange. Simply because you don’t see much red and orange glass around.

This shell suncatcher craft uses one of our free printable templates to create a project that will look great up in your window. We’ve used tissue paper and shredded paper for ours but this would look super bright if you used cellophane. 3. Shell Animals articles on the relative economic situations in Britain ('The Unemployment Bill under Fire') and Germany ('Nazi Economics') encourages political interpretation. The likelihood of deliberation is reinforced by the fact that the additional text about the Bank of France (from the regular 'The Week in the City') was brought in from later in the same issue (p.790). Piper's transformation of these economic texts into the coastal barrier against foreign invasion appears as deliberate as the use of 'Albatross'. Use two colors of sea glass to create a distinct shape like a love heart, or you could make a star, a moon or whatever you prefer. Sea Glass Ocean Collected some seashells on your day out? This shell frame from Rhythms of Play is a great way to craft with them and the addition of the handprint makes it into a great keepsake too. 13. Rainbow Fish CraftIn the US, the best beaches for sea glass are found in California particularly Glass Beach, California